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After the success of their Janacek album, the Energie Nove quartet presents a new release featuring works by Bedrich Smetana. "An exceptional [album] and one any admirer of this composer should hear...

Soler / Bicket / Aikin / Maniaci L'Arbore Di Diana CD1. Overture 2. Zitto, Zitto, Non Parlate 3. Dove Diavolo Son? 4. Tranquilli Soggiorni 5. Ecco, Amiche Compagne, Il Garzoncello 6. Da Parte Gli...

Il Burbero di buon cuore is based on one of the most popular and amusing French comedies by Carlo Goldoni, Le bourru bienfaisant. A brilliant libretto, music that can be both graceful and...

In the collective imagination, the string quartet is associated with the great classical repertoire, but in the past twenty years it has inevitably been affected by the experimentations of...

Sor / Cherici,Paolo Studies In The Form Of Suites CD1. Study No. 18 in B minor 2. Study No. 4 in B minor 3. Study No. 22 in B minor 4. Study No. 7 in E Major 5. Study No. 23 in E Major 6. Study No...

The Avalokite Duo possess a unique sound due to the changing timbres of it's countless percussion instruments, combined with the characteristic sounds of the harp. This program joins their album The...

Gaspare Spontini's "Le Metamorfosi di Pasquale," was premiered in Venice in 1802. This one-act farce, on a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa was to be his last work for the Italian stage. After it's debut,...

After his Neapolitan training Gaspare Spontini settled in Paris for a few years, where he was nominated "compositeur particulier de la chambre" of Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife. It was indeed...

Jo Stafford was a legendary American popular singer, whose career spanned 5 decades from the 1930s to the 80s. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United...

Steffani / Greco / Donini / Strano / Massaro Agostino Steffani: Baccanali CD

Alessandro Stradella was the undisputed star composer of his day who wrote hundreds of works in varying genres. His cantatas are in essence miniature operas in which the themes of love and the...

Despite the many scandals in his life, Alessandro Stradella rose to a position of great eminence in Rome, where his music was consistently acclaimed. At a time when opera was often denigrated by the...